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Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-09-09 · 1h 13m

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Brought to You By: • turbopuffer - a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable • Antithesis - verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests - and avoid bugs or outages. • Entire - Git hosting, rebuilt for the agentic era. Every agent session, prompt and tool calls: stored in your repo. - Tibo Sottiaux is one of the engineers who created Codex, and today, he heads up the Core Products & Platform org at OpenAI which also includes Codex. He’s also one of the most public faces of Codex due to his frequent - and generous - usage reset announcements, like this one yesterday . In this episode of the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, Tibo and I discuss how Codex was built and continues to be iterated upon. We explore why the Codex CLI is written in Rust and was released as open source, how the harness and models have evolved, and why Codex supports models from multiple providers. Tibo also shares details about how the OpenAI team uses Codex throughout the software development lifecycle, including code reviews, maintenance, and system rearchitecture.

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